The first club World Cup held by FIFA with 32 participants (also called the World Cup and Supermundial) is halfway through the round of 16, the first stage of knockouts.
Two Brazilians remain alive (Palmeiras and Fluminense), two died (Botafogo and Flamengo).
I see more hits than errors in this first swollen edition, which follows the (great) formula used from 1998 to 2022 for the World Cup. From 2026, there will be 48 countries, an exaggeration that will lead to the tournament that has existed since 1930 more teams of lower technical level.
The most striking attraction of Supermundial in the US is the microcamera that each referee uses at the time of the ear coupled to the communication device. A hit.
It shows a view of the bid (the judge) to which we are not used to, scored goals and fouls committed, among other moments of the match. It’s different, there is a touch of video game. But it could be more frequent for use by those who take care of replays – rare sometimes in the transmission that the function is activated.
Speaking of broadcast, I read that the World Cup audience has been good in Brazil, but not so much in other squares.
It has not “caught” between Europeans and American, and this is a challenge for FIFA’s marketing and publicizing departments for the next edition in four years.
By the way, I realized something unpleasant to see the games on Globo. Even more to the narrator or commentator than to the viewer. Without any warning, suddenly the screen is divided and the advertising of a Bet enters for a few seconds.
Who speaks is interrupted in the middle of the sentence, a disrespect. It is a commercial issue, but they could combine the moment of interruption. Have some common sense.
Good sense that should be used in the future when discarding innovation, implemented at the entrance of players into the field. NBA -style (basketball) and athletics competitions, athletes are announced, name the name.
In the NBA, there is a show of lights, and the Arena announcer Capricha in the intonation to incense the players of the principal team. The public gets involved.
In athletics, competitors do their show: they hit their chest, dance, jump, scream, between faces and mouths. The public gets involved.
At Supermundial de Futebol, there is none of that. It was an attempt that failed. It’s embarrassed. Did not take.
Another, non -unprecedented idea, put into practice at the US World Cup is the stop for refresh/”cooling break”), 30 minutes into the first and second half, when the climate situation requires.
It is not good for the dynamics of the match (the interruption is up to three minutes), but it is necessary due to the very high temperatures (above 30 ° C) of the American summer.
Players thank you, and the coaches take the opportunity to give them new guidelines or reinforce their given before.
Still in the interruption, so far the infamous VAR (Assistant Video Referee) has been discreet, almost imperceptible, in Supermundial. Much due to the semi -automatic impediment system, which is recent.
With it, nothing more of being traced, minutes on end, the lines (the difficulty with them is tremendous) to try to complete the regularity or not of the play. It needs to be like this always, in every championship.
Returning to weather conditions, six games were paralyzed in different cities due to storm alerts, which could endanger those present in each stadium.
It’s a protocol, and it’s a problem. The stops are long, half an hour to (well) more. Benfica x Auckland, in Orlando, resumed after about two hours, eternity.
And for eternity will be the theme song in the World Cup.
Touched at the opening and closing of all broadcasts, “Freed from Desire” (free of desire), launched almost 30 years ago by the Italian Gala Rizzatto (and whose letter nothing to do with football), will be in my head to the end of life: na-na-in-na-in, na-na, na-na.
Fortunately to me, the na-in-na pleases.
This text is possibly the last one I write about Supermundial before its end. A trip abroad for a long time probably due to the schedule of activities and time zone will prevent me from following the matches. If you can, enjoy the final stretch. It is a historical tournament.
